As you probably already know, Microsoft released their “Windows 8 Consumer Preview”. Some say it bold, others say it’s stupid – removing the old familiar start-button from the taskbar. It’s probably just out of old-habit, but I struggled without it. And I’m not the only one. Meaning someone already made a fix for it.

ViStart

To be perfectly honest, ViStart is not a new product. It has actually been around a while and is a tool created to replace the standard Start-Menu in Windows XP, Vista and 7. The program runs perfectly under Windows 8 Consumer Edition so there’s really no need to miss the Start-Button any longer.

You might experience that the Start-Button overlap the Internet Explorer Icon which now live where the Start-Button used to. If you do, there is an easy fix. Thanks to a smart guy called Vishal there’s a quick fix to the problem. What you do is to add a folder to the taskbar as a menu. Then Unlock the Taskbar and move that empty folder menu all the way over to the left side, nudging the MSIE icon to the right (more detailed explanation over at his blog here) .

One thing before you download

The installer comes with toolbar add ons. Make sure you uncheck all of them before installation. These are NOT virus, adware nor spyware, just annoying toolbars cladding your browser view.